What God said (then) to Noah , about the wickedness of the world is still true (today) about the wickedness of the world.  Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. ( 12) God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.  ~Genesis 6:11-12 The Lord brought the flood as a consequence to sin, and Noah and his family (alone) were the human survivors of the flood, even though the ark had a big door on the side that was open to every animal that entered, and that door was also open to every man, woman, and child living during Noah's day.   So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.  (15)  This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high. ( 16) Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around.    Put a door in the side of the ark ...

Let's GO, Brothers and Sisters in Christ!  ...I am talking to us.  To those of us who love the Lord and call Him our leader, and our shepherd, and our foundation. Today is not a stand-alone day, it is connected to everything and ALL that we have persevered-through on every previous day of our lives.  Think about what we have endured, and made-it-through, and put-up-with, and overcome .  But not alone...never alone.  Always with the underlying current of hope-in-Christ and faith-in-God running through our heart and fueling our spirit. By God's strength, and not our own... we are still here , still standing.  Still shining   out  the light  that God has given us within.  We were  not crushed.  O ur hardships have STRENGTHED us, and not destroyed us.  We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair. We are hunted down, but never abandoned by God.  We get kn...